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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5772266" data-attributes="member: 48469">Sounds like there will be no Palestinian state until the Palestinians decide it'd be OK if Israel continued to exist too. And that if they had decided that years ago it might have already been established. "Dr. Ashrawi told me she’s been unspeakably frustrated to hear U.S. politicians talking in recent weeks about a Palestinian state. It was painful, she pointed out, for Palestinians to accept the terms on which statehood was offered — as a parallel country that would permanently enshrine Palestinian exile from lost homes within Israel proper. Considering what Palestinians have lost since 1948, when Israel was founded at the cost of violently displacing hundreds of thousands of Arabs, the state is arguably a paltry promise."</blockquote>